It's a time of change, literally. I mean it's the time of year that time itself changes, daylight saving.
I'll be off to bed soon, I'm just finishing off watching Formula One qualifying live from Singapore and then I'll be off...but not before I change the time on my wall and desk clocks and on my Casino Mud Master watch by an hour...and hour forward. Between one moment and the next it'll be 1am Sunday morning instead of midnight meaning I lose an hour...and yet they call it daylight saving. Of course, I'll make that hour back in sick months when the clocks go back to normal time and I get to wind them back and hour.
It'll mean more daylight in the evenings and by the middle of summer the sun will still be up at around 9pm. I'm not really a fan of it to be honest though, the days are naturally longer in summer anyway, I just don't see the need to shift the time. It's interesting actually, as not all of Australia has daylight savings with some States,Queensland for instance, opting against it. Maybe I need to move there!
It is what it is I suppose and it's not like I can change the fact.
Do you have daylight saving time in your location and, if so, do you like it or loathe it. Feel free to explain either way if you'd like.
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We have the time change on October 26, going back one hour and I bloody hate that! Basically you get out of work one hour late and it's all dark and black, you can't even do a walk with the twilight at least, nothing and it's cold... Also the dark comes before even the weekend... I prefer way more the summer clock time, more light in the day
So you like the shift of time through DST? I think it's a diabolical manipulation of the sun (the sense time humans have applied to the rising and setting of the sun) and that there's no need for it. I mean, what sort of planet would we live in if humans simply did what they wanted to do without any thought for the natural order of things? Oh hang on, that's what the egotistical race of cunts called humans do already! And the planet suffers because of it.
I don't like switching every 6 months because every time it screws up my body for days, but if I had to pick i would leave DST 12 months, simply because it gives more "lifetime" out of the work with some sun but also makes people consume less energy, after the change for example at work there will be a full building with lights on as it gets dark earlier, such a waste of energy...
In the end the hour/time is just an human concept and we are binded to it due to daily routines (school, work, etc...), if I was free from that, as you say I would just follow the sun rising and setting without caring for "it's X am/pm" (probably farmers do like this if they work on their own fields)
We don't have it over here either. I remember the period of time where they basically tried to force it in with a 3 year "trial" period probably hoping that everyone would "get used to it" and then vote yes to make it permanent because they're used to it and people don't like change but what happened was when the referendum happened at the end of the "trial" period the balance shifted from having been only slightly more people opposed (which from distant memory was what it was from the last time there was a referendum about it) to a lot more people being opposed.
Yeah, two and a half hour gap to your time and mine now, makes doing business with WA a little problematic. Good on you sandgropers for voting against it though.
Yes, we have daylight savings time where I live.
I have a love/hate relationship with it. I have a steady routine and, unless I am on vacation, most of my days each week have a similar structure. I like structure and routine.
Daylight Savings Time interrupts up my routine for the first few days as I adjust. I dislike this because I like routine and espcially loathe the one where I lose an hour. On the other hand, I think it's healthy to have an occasional change and mix up my routine. I like this challenge and use it as an opportunity to evaluate my morning routine as I wake earlier or later.
Structure is legit. It's similar to discipline, and that's also legit.
I understand what you're saying and am the same actually, always challenging the structure, what's normal and (possibly) in need of a change; that way things improve, or are, at least, confirmed to be legit just the way they are.
As for DST, I don't like the manufactured concept and how it shows humans to be unable or unwilling to accept and work with the world around them; some may say that's somewhat closed minded of me, and that's ok, their choice to think how they think.
There are numerous studies showing the adverse health effects of DST. The European parliament voted in 2019 to end it, but nothing's happened since. I loathe the dark evenings. You don't notice so much in the city but in the sticks, without street lights it's pitch black.
I just don't get why the natural order of things needs to be messed with...oh yeah, I get it, humans are assholes.
Or, governments gotta govern, lawmakers gotta make laws.
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I don't like changing time. But I guess doing it few times in a year is not THAT bad...
Not too bad, I just like to complain about it when it starts because I don't like DST.
We have it here in Estonia. On 25-th we will turn the time 1 hour backwards. The fact that it happens 2 times a year does not bother me in itself, but I would still love it to be cancelled.
We have very few dailyight hours here in the mid-winter and if the clock was left to summer time, then we would have one more hour of daylight in the evening. I don't care about darker morning, I want the evening to be brighter.
So currently during Christmas sun sets here in 15.22. If it was 16.22, it would be much better IMO.
There have been talks of cancelling the time changing, but so far it has not happened.
Cancelling it here has been talked about for years but it never happens which annoys me greatly.
I don't see the need to extend daylight hours either, and here the clocks change at the end of October, so it will get dark earlier and by 6 p.m. it will be completely dark, winter time, which I'm not keen on either. Although, I adapt and I like evening walks. But I really don't think it's necessary. In Spain, it's the same everywhere, the timetable is the same everywhere.
We can do the same things we always do whether we have DST or not right?
Absolutely, and make the most of the positive things.
Ewwww ....I could have done without the reminder since ours is opposite here and nearly over night before too long, There will be hardly any daylight left when I clock off of work. Some states have changed and don't do this anymore, leaving more light in the evening in winter. The last couple of years, it was rumored that our state might be considering that, but it has not happened.
It's already getting dark earlier and although I usually adapt either way pretty fast, the last few evenings it has felt later than it really was.
I can't like it!
The natural order of things should be left alone I think, human manipulation isn't required, except to satisfy the whims and hubris of humans themselves.
As I have mentioned before, I have a daylight saving time. As a child, I used to wake up between 6 and 6.30 am. But after two decades, I have to wake up at 4 am. We have to balance the work with the children, family and work. If we have a clear desire to save daylight, we can achieve it with continuous and successful implementation. But it needs to be legally recognized.
People should be able to make use of the time as it stands, I mean the sun rising and setting and I don't see why DST is necessary. Just another useless manipulation by human beings.
In my country, we don't have summer or winter time. The same time zones are maintained year-round. The difference is noticeable. This month, the days are shorter, as dusk begins to fall after five o'clock, and in January, the nights are shorter.
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That's a good thing I think, non need to manipulate the time. Having shorter and longer days at times of the year is exactly how the planet is supposed to function.
I feel like I have had an entire hour wrenched away from me. I better bloody get it back in six months!
Quali was decent, should be a good race tonight. Sorry you're not able to be there.
I know right? and I woke up at the same fucken time...5:30am. All good though, I went for an 18km ride...nice and invigorated.
Yeah, RUS did well, I hope he can sustain it, as long as Piastri finishes ahead of Norris and Verstappen I'll be happy. I hope it's a good race.
In the words of one of my favourite F1 youtubers who doesn't post videos anymore (because he keeps getting demonitised) - "He will fuck it into the barriers"
Turn 1 will be, as ever, the most exciting part of the race. I might have pizza alone to celebrate it, and enjoy Mr Brundle's awkward grid walk :)
I usually watch F1 TV but for sure Brundle's grid walls are worth watching for the cringe factor.
We start daylight savings back up in about a month. I don't really care. I get up so early most days that it is dark out at 4 AM whether we fall back or spring ahead an hour! More light in the evening is always nice though.
Yes, being uncaring works sometimes, I'm just not one to roll over and simple accept something that I feel is worthless and a ridiculous manipulation of the natural order of the planet, sun and moon.
I think they did try to get rid of it in the past (at least over here) and if I remember correctly people started freaking out because it was basically dark out at 4 PM in and they couldn't handle it.
Lol, ah yes people like things going their own way, who cares about the natural order of the planet and the sun.
Yes, they are pretty needy like that. It would be weird for me at first, but I would get used to it over time. Like you said, it's the natural order of things.
Fortunately we don't have Daylight Savings Time in Singapore. Less messy that way. Hope you enjoyed the Singapore GP!!
Way less messy. The F1 was enjoyable, but would rather have been there in person.
Hope the Singapore quali was worth the sleep tax, that hour forward hurts :)
In my place we dont do daylight saving, clocks stay put all year, so I never get that 9pm summer sun thing.
The change make my routine messy, my brain does the math slow' and I end up early or late.
Your Mud Master is getting a workout with all that winding haha.
Have you ever experienced DST yourself?
yeah, once on a short trip to Germany; the clock jumped and I lost an hour. felt weird next morning and the meetings was off by a bit :) but those late sunsets were sweet, i admit.
How interesting! It's winter here in Venezuela, but I'm always amazed at how vibrant and warm summer is. 🌞✨
Summer is indeed warm.
Here, in the Northern Hemisphere, we are expected to move the clock to winter time, when, in the afternoon, when we return from work and when the day should just start (our free time), it will get dark around 4PM (and all in order to wake up a little earlier in the morning, when we go to work, to be awake so that we can immediately give maximum alertness to employers).
I'm annoyed by the clock shift, not because of the loss or gain of an hour during the night when it changes, but because of the additional shortening of the day during the winter.
Nov 2nd here.
Does not effect my work/sleep mental clock much. That clock has been trucker fucked since 1992.
We don't have it here. Makes sense. The fluctuation of sunset and -rise is about 30min throughout the year. I remember it from Germany though, and never really understood it. I still don't. It still bothers me that I sometimes have to calculate 6h to call my family in the right time, and sometimes 7h. But in the end, the correct time is just a search away.
Last time I was in Germany in late summer, August, was a wonderful flashback into my youth. It was incredibly hot, so I was sitting in the open window, staring outside in the still illuminated world at 10pm, having a refreshing Radler and breathing in the peculiar scent of summer. Then, I was really glad that it was so bright so late. But that's nostalgia, not practical thinking.